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On Yahoo News it has just been reported that The Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons. That'll make it 16 seasons and about 360 episodes.

And King of the Hill has been renewed for another season.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20030117/104280354900.html

What do you think? Good news or has The Simpsons past its prime?

I think it's good news. Very few shows can maintain the levels of comedy or drama and originality that they started with, which is exactly what 'The Simpsons' has done.

I wouldn't mind the Simpsons going on for another 10 years. They just need to find better material cause I think it is getting a bit dry.

The Simpson's is not what it once was, but the quality is still well above much of what is on TV. By 2005 I think that will be the end though.

Fuck Simsons gimme Futurama

Futurama will never be able to match the Simpsons.

Even if it gets old its still funny

More Simpons=More chance of funny=Allways a good thing

ay. Sure it has been declining for the past few year but it's still better than damn near anything else out there.

Fuck Simsons gimme Futurama
Cartoon Network has picked up Futurama and has suggested it wants more if the ratings are good.

I seriously hope CN puts the Futurama guys back in business. I love that show.

Dalton wrote:I seriously hope CN puts the Futurama guys back in business. I love that show.

Then watch it. Because they've said if the ratings are there they'll put it back in production.

Stormbringer wrote:Then watch it. Because they've said if the ratings are there they'll put it back in production.

I AM watching it. Sun-Thu at 11.

The problem with Fox and most quality new shows is that they get shitty timeslots. Family Guy was barely advertised and had a shitty timeslot, even though I found it just as funny as The Simpsons. I think Futurama started off weakly, but it got extremely funny in the later seasons, but again, crappy timeslot on Fox.

What gets the good timeslots? Fucking moronic "reality" show.

I'm glad. So-so Simpsons is till pretty good.

As long as there are curtural icons to make fun of, and a society to critize, there will always be The Simpsons.

Simpsons is past its peak, but Im willing to give it a go for another two years.
And of course it will be in re-runs for a long time to come.

hoo-rah. more Simpsons!!!

I'm sick of the Simpsons and it's let all laugh at Homer idiocy. Kill it now please.

Give us more Futurama and Family Guy.

The Simpsons is the pedestal of cartoon humor. Slightly below it is Family Guy, and then down and a little to the left is Futurama.

IIRC Futurama isn't exactly canned. The episodes are so absurdly easy to make that they will make 2-3 seasons worth then take a break, then years later make some more. Right now they aren't sure if their going to continue Futurama, but we still have a health supply of episodes not yet aired.

You should have offered another option in the poll, " They've jumped the shark, but I want more". And may whoever cancelled Family Guy be used as a demon's butt-plug in hell.

Alyeska wrote:IIRC Futurama isn't exactly canned. The episodes are so absurdly easy to make that they will make 2-3 seasons worth then take a break, then years later make some more. Right now they aren't sure if their going to continue Futurama, but we still have a health supply of episodes not yet aired.

The animation takes more time than that but it's pretty easy especially compared to disney-type or anime cartoons. And they have a season and a half worth of episodes that never aired.

The big problem is they disnbanded the Futurama team. That's the most difficult part of resuming the show. It's rebuilding a team capable of resuming the series. According to Groening most of the team would be willing to come back though.

Alyeska wrote:IIRC Futurama isn't exactly canned. The episodes are so absurdly easy to make that they will make 2-3 seasons worth then take a break, then years later make some more. Right now they aren't sure if their going to continue Futurama, but we still have a health supply of episodes not yet aired.

It still takes a while to make episodes. And the reason that there is still about a season unaired is because Futurama was preempted all the time. Not because it was so easy to make.

I Stopped watching The Simpsons years ago. I felt it jumped back around 97' or 98', when the humor got too dry and relied on too many long, drawn-out fanciful tangents (The Critic did this alot. It'd just take a single mildly silly idea and run with it for 3-5 minutes sometimes).

Some episodes I caught recently practically bolied down to "Hey, look at us, we're the Simpsons! You all know our characterizations; they're funny by default!" I just want them to steele down and go back to their earlier seasons of two through eight or nine (season one was really akward, and on the opposite side of the problem with the recent ones; it seemed they barely knew what to do with their characters.).

King of the Hill is great, though. I should watch that more often.

Ugh. I hate King of the Hill with a passion.

I actually thought Family Guy was slightly better than the Simpsons...